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Two Scots families united by 'War Horse'.

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  1. GRW

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    A happier ending than most horses the Army used in WW1.
    "Two families linked by a heroic Scottish horse that served in some of the bloodiest battles of World War One have met for the first time.
    When the conflict started in 1914, Vic was a farm horse owned by the McGregor family near Montrose.
    She was specially chosen to serve with Cpt Alexander Wallace in France – and was the only horse from the area to return from the war.
    Vic was later briefly reunited with Cpt Wallace, who arranged for her to return to Angus and live out the rest of her life at the McGregors' farm.
    More than 100 years later, the soldier's descendants have travelled from the US to meet the McGregors and hand over Cpt Wallace's war diaries to the Montrose Air Station Museum."
    How two families were linked by a Scottish war horse - BBC News
     

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